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Delve into the popular and competitive world of heroine design as
50 of the world's finest character artists from the fields of
animation, illustration, comics, and games share a
behind-the-scenes look at their stunning sketchbook pages,
showcasing over 2,500 drawings! A range of styles and genres are
explored, including classic comic book superheroines and magical
princesses, plus historical, fantasy, and sci-fi heroines from
across time and space. From concept sketches and initial
thumbnails, to emotions and expressions, outfit variations, and an
engaging chosen design, artists share their previously unseen
explorations alongside expert advice for crafting compelling
heroine designs. Further pages explore action and pose - a library
of dynamic sketches with invaluable basic-shape overlays, offering
a revealing collection of each artist's ideas and experiments.
"3dtotal Publishing launched a brand-new design series, with the
recent release of Character Design Collection: Heroines. This
series aims to present inspirational sketches and pose explorations
by some of the best character artists out there. This first edition
is simply incredible, and perfect for ushering in what I'm sure
will be continued greatness ahead with future volumes... This book
will surely serve as a fantastic reference for inspiration and a
great tool in learning character creation. Highly recommended!"
Nick Charles @ Renderosity Magazine
Drawing On Grief is a uniquely creative journal and mindful
keepsake which draws on the soothing therapeutic power of drawing
and creativity to help people navigate the pain of bereavement. In
this moving book of self-help through art therapy, author Kate
Sutton draws on her own experiences of losing a loved one to help
others on this difficult journey, presenting guided creative
prompts as well as memories of her own and quotes from others on
the painful topic of loss. By guiding readers through creative
exercises from drawing fond memories together to creating an ocean
of tears with colouring pencils, this book helps people visualise
the pain they are going through, so as to better understand and
navigate their grief. The book also contains written prompts such
as writing a letter to yourself and to your loved one, designed to
help people express the difficult emotions which bereavement
brings. Part self-help book, part memoir, Drawing On Grief
emphasizes the importance of self-care in the grieving process,
allowing people to explore their own feelings through creative
mediums, which can often be easier than trying to express feelings
directly. A modern and insightful approach to the pain of loss,
Drawing On Grief is a sensitive and compassionate guide to help
people look after themselves as they traverse one of life's most
challenging moments. This book is part of the Drawing On... series,
a collection of creative guided journals which help readers explore
difficult topics including anxiety and grief. Also available is
Drawing On Anxiety, a beautifully illustrated interactive journal
tapping into self-help, self-care, mental health and creative
mindfulness.
Sold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled, handmade greeting cards,
blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope. Themed with
our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books. Our
greeting cards are printed on FSC paper and wrapped in
biodegradable cellobag, and are themed with our art calendars,
foiled notebooks and illustrated art books. Robert John Thornton's
New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus
(1799-1807) was comprised of three parts: a dissertation on the
reproductive cycle of plants, an explanation of Linnaeus' plant
system, and 'The Temple of Flora'. This third and final part was
the most ambitious and has become instantly recognizable in its
sumptuous illustrations, such as Tulips, which is an engraving by
Richard Earlom after a painting by Philip Reinagle.
Create your own chibi world with fun and adorable step-by-step
drawing exercises, including over 60 fantasy creatures and
characters featuring different accessories, clothing, facial
expressions, and poses. These fantasy creatures and animals will
make you squeal with delight! Chibi is Japanese slang for "short,"
and the characters in Cute Chibi Mythical Beasts & Magical
Monsters live up to this description with their cute roly-poly
bodies that make them extremely lovable and huggable. Phoebe Im,
creator of Bobblejot, has a cute and easy drawing style that is
made accessible through this how-to book for artists of all levels.
Cute Chibi Mythical Beasts & Magical Monsters features
easy-to-follow instructions to help you enjoy the world of chibi,
incorporating dynamic expressions and poses to challenge your
skills. Along with the step-by-step instructions, there are
inspiration pages with fun accessories and clothing, facial
expressions, and different poses as well as a digital workshop to
guide you on how to make quick drawings on your phone or tablet.
Learn how to draw these fantasy creatures in cute chibi style:
Gnome Troll Mermaid Fairy Golem Cyclops Big Foot Unicorn Dragons
(various species) Vampire Zombie Chimera Pegasus Phoenix Loch Ness
Monster Griffon Cerberus Sphinx Werewolf Practice and expand your
drawing skills as you create adorable chibi beasts and creatures
with this fun and accessible book.
ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening
and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times 'A biography
as rich with colourful characters as any novel' Telegraph John
Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the
landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best-loved
but perhaps least understood artist. His paintings reflect visions
of landscape that shocked and perplexed his contemporaries:
attentive to detail, spontaneous in gesture, brave in their use of
colour. What we learn from his landscapes is that Constable had
sharp local knowledge of Suffolk, a clarity of expression of the
skyscapes above Hampstead, an understanding of the human tides in
London and Brighton, and a rare ability in his late paintings of
Salisbury Cathedral to transform silent suppressed passion into
paint. Yet Constable was also an active and energetic
correspondent. His letters and diaries - there are over one
thousand letters from and to him - reveal a man of passion, opinion
and discord, while his character and personality is concealed
behind the high shimmering colour of his paintings. They reveal too
the lives and circumstances of his brothers and his sisters, his
cousins and his aunts, who serve to define the social and economic
landscape against which he can be most clearly seen. These
multifaceted reflections draw a sharp picture of the person, as
well as the painter. James Hamilton's biography reveals a complex,
troubled man, and explodes previous mythologies about this timeless
artist, and establishes him in his proper context as a giant of
European art.
Not only Mao before the masses, but also dozens of housewives armed
with brooms, scores of Gillette razors and hundreds of Mon Cheri
chocolates. In a play on perceptions in which nothing (or
everything) is what it seems, in the midst of a profusion of food
tins, cleaning products, cars, reinforced concrete buildings and
motorways that populate the works of Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937).
Acclaimed as one of the voices of Pop Art in Germany, the truth is
that Bayrle's ironic, repetitive, almost grotesque visual displays
ultimately subvert the paradigms of the Pop movement. His works are
practically psychedelic maps constructed from mosaics of images and
hallucinatory to a point far beyond pop's hypnotic and surface
effects. This book, based on the first retrospective devoted to
this artist of artists, reproduces part of his work.
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer,
as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved
mother Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After
graduating from Yale's School of Design and Architecture, she moved
to Europe and spent decades traveling the world and living at the
center of artistic, literary, and political circles. She became a
renowned artist whose work is now in museum collections around the
world. Later, she also became an award-winning poet and bestselling
novelist. And along the way, she met many luminaries-from Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Salvador Dali, Alexander Calder, James Baldwin,
and Mao Zedong to Toni Morrison, Pierre Cardin, Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis, and Josephine Baker. I Always Knew is an intimate and
vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud's life as told through the letters
she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In
candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in
Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys
around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle
East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia. By turns
brilliant and naive, passionate and tender, poignant and funny,
these letters show Chase-Riboud in the process of becoming who she
is and who she might become. But what emerges most of all is the
powerful story of a unique and remarkable relationship between a
talented, ambitious, and courageous daughter and her adored mother.
One of the best-loved painters in English history, Thomas
Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the most personally
engaging. Bon vivant, wit, amateur and enthusiastic musician, he
charmed sitters and friends alike. His ebullient, if not always
reliable, personality comes to life in these two memoirs, written
by two very different friends.
'I was raised with an artist's mentality; my first 25 years were
spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and
illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music.
Recently, I've reverted into the arts, combining all these elements
in my work, still trying to change the world. This is truly what I
want to do. My deepest thanks to Genesis for giving me a place to
be able to display all of this through my artwork.' - Chuck D In
his first fine art book, Livin' Loud, Public Enemy founder, hip-hop
pioneer and revolutionary activist, Chuck D, presents a body of
artworks which continue to address the social and politically
conscious issues of his lyrics. In Livin' Loud, Chuck D's artworks
reveal his visual dexterity as he explores a diverse range of
subjects paying homage to his musical influences and peers from
James Brown and Woody Guthrie to Def Jam labelmates Run-DMC and
Beastie Boys; a host of the most influential hip-hop artists from
Ice Cube to Run the Jewels; his twin passions of baseball and
basketball; creating a collection of landscapes on tour with
Prophets of Rage, and a range of sociopolitical pieces that explore
the issues continuing to shape our culture. Chuck D has been
creating musical and cultural observations that challenge public
opinion since 1985 and his visual compositions continue to
interpret and question the world around us. Chuck D's written
commentary traces his musical and artistic trajectory from his
early roots and the central figures that critically shaped him and
his voice, the formation of Public Enemy through to their Rock 'n'
Roll Hall of Fame induction, his time with Prophets of Rage through
to current day world affairs. With a foreword by Rage Against the
Machine's Tom Morello, Chuck D's art debut Livin' Loud is a visual
experience of over 250 artworks, each piece reflective of the man
behind the music.
Over his long and successful career David Remfry MBE RA RWS has
achieved a mastery of watercolour that few have matched. Unusually
for the medium, he works on a large scale and often focuses on
people, exploring the dance hall and the nightclub in breathtaking
images that are at once beautiful and edgy. This book is the first
full-length monograph devoted to the artist's watercolours. Its
author, James Russell, is well known for his writing on
20th-century British artists. Russell brings his scholarship,
humour and fascination for people and their lives to his study of
Remfry's career, tracing the evolution of a remarkable talent,
looking in depth at the most significant works and placing Remfry
in the context of both the British watercolour tradition and
international contemporary painting. This is at once a glorious art
book and an intimate portrait of city life. Having spent 20 years
living and working at the legendary Chelsea Hotel in New York,
Remfry has a following on both sides of the Atlantic. New Yorkers -
often in party mode - feature in many of his watercolours, and his
recollections of people and places add colour to the text.
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The fourth book in the Bondi series from photographer Paul Freeman
Instagram star Jeannie Dickson has created a modern and inviting
introduction to watercolor painting that aspiring artists will turn
to again and again on their creative journey. Hello, Watercolor!
offers a fresh approach to painting watercolors with concise and
accessible information. Aspiring artists and journalers will
immediately be able to apply the techniques they learn on these
pages--including brush lettering--to more than 15 exciting
step-by-step projects, from painting origami animals, sparkling
glass shards, and beautiful alphabets to producing luscious florals
and fanciful unicorns. Among the features that make this handbook
both a valuable learning tool and source of inspiration: Projects
include a list of techniques with cross-references Each project
includes watercolors used with swatches so readers can make
substitutions easily Popular color palettes and color "recipes" for
foolproof mixing 12 monthly challenges with daily or weekly prompts
to inspire painting all year long Templates to trace and paint for
some projects Ideas to share work and connect with others (e.g.,
Instagram)
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The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the
world, and tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible
500 years. Within the collection are examples ranging from
sixteenth-century early stack freed watches made in south Germany
to exquisite decorative watches of the seventeenth century.
Everyday watches from the eighteenth century and precision-made
chronometers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are
included, as are examples from the modern era. All the major makers
of Europe and America will be represented, including Thomas
Tompion, whose reputation stretched far and wide even in his own
time, and the Swiss-born Abraham Louis Breguet, who lived and
worked in Paris supplying the best that money could buy to the
crown heads and aristocratic families of the western world. In
contrast to the high precision of the horological giants, the
Museum has a growing collection of wristwatches, including those
with automatic winding systems. There are also extensive
collections of pin-pallet lever watches made for the mass market
during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by companies such as
Waterbury and Ingersoll. The collections are brought up to the
minute with the inclusion of early examples of electro-mechanical
watches and the quartz revolution.
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